Popular sovereignty democratizes everything but rule.
Jun 192019
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
Jun 132019
Populism is mostly the desire for better elites.
Jun 112019
No government censors so rigorously as a mob.
Jun 062019
An ounce of exit is worth a pound of voice.
Jun 052019
The great political divide is not between left and right, populist and elitist, or authoritarian and libertarian. It is between people who are consumed by politics and people who are sane.
May 302019
Late capitalism is a myth: late democracy is real.
May 162019
We are too consumed by who shall rule to notice how.
May 132019
The arc of the eligible-voter universe bends toward fecklessness.
May 092019
To pretend that everybody rules is the shortest way to get your hands on everybody’s stuff.
May 082019
Censorship is the appropriate punishment for writing that the censor understands.